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U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said on Friday negotiations with the White House on a new cybersecurity bill have resumed, and the two sides are not "that far apart" after making progress this week.The Michigan Republican told Reuters that both sides are "very close" on agreeing about the roles that the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies would play to better defend against cyber attacks.They are also negotiating ways to minimize the transfer and use of personal information from companies to the government, Rogers said. No written drafts have been exchanged, the talks are informal and no deal is imminent, a committee staffer said.In a joint interview with the senior Democrat on his committee, Dutch Ruppersberger, Rogers said the talks have been aided by increasing concerns about the costs of cyber attacks."What helped is that The New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal were all hacked and they talked about it publicly," R...
Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed the data of about 200,000 bank card holders in North America, the latest of a string of ...
By Maria Aspan and Narayanan SomasundaramNEW YORK/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed the data of about 2...
Data storage firm EMC Ltd has offered to replace millions of potentially compromised "SecurID" electronic keys after hackers used data stolen from its RSA security d...
Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and several other U.S. military contractors, a source with direct knowledge of the att...
Fears over an Internet kill switch erupted last month in the wake of Egypt’s successful blackout, sounding alarms even among tech-dependant Westerners who once belie...
AT&T has started to issue warnings to customers unofficially tethering their smartphones to its network.In an email to unauthorized tetherers , the company writes, “...
EMC ’s (NYSE:EMC) RSA security division said it experienced an “extremely sophisticated cyber attack” against its two-step authentication processes used by customers...
The rise of the Conficker worm and Heartland Payment Systems' enormous data breach were two defining security events in 2009. What's in store for 2010?"It's going to...
RSA Conference Program committee chairman Hugh Thompson on how prepared institutions and exchanges are for cyber attacks.
EMC Corp. (EMC) on Tuesday eased fears of slowing business spending on technology by reporting its best-ever fourth quarter and issuing an optimistic view for 2012, ...
This year is already being called “The Year of the Hack,” due to the unprecedented number of damaging attacks against major companies like Sony , RSA Security, Googl...
When companies suffer a serious cyber attack that leads to the loss of intellectual property or does damage to valuable infrastructure, they are left with a vexing q...
By Jim FinkleHackers who infiltrated the Nasdaq's computer systems last year installed malicious software that allowed them to spy on the directors of publicly held ...
Every day, it seems, we're bombarded by things we need to fear: terrorism, economic Armageddon, swine flu, etc. With a full plate of peril perpetually besetting our ...
By Rhys JonesLE BOURGET, France (Reuters) - A spate of high-profile online break-ins has given defense firms at the Paris Air Show a new sales pitch: cyber security....